{"id":1537,"date":"2013-01-19T19:55:22","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T00:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=1537"},"modified":"2013-01-19T19:55:22","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T00:55:22","slug":"sometimes-i-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/sometimes-i-wonder\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes I wonder…."},"content":{"rendered":"

….if it’s worth the fight.\u00a0 The government, which of course is vitally concerned about the food you eat, (sarcasm intended) has come up with still more regulations.\u00a0 What they say, of course, is they’re only thinking of you.\u00a0 But what they’re doing of course, is trying another end run that will favor Big Ag and penalize those small farmers who actually care about the quality of the food we eat.<\/p>\n

What Uncle Sam plans to do is “inspect” producers and processors in high risk areas.\u00a0 And the cost of us high risk farmers will be $13,000 a year.\u00a0 Big Ag, which makes billions and is the cause of all the unsafe food that is produced every year, will pay about $30,000.\u00a0 So your justifiable concern over the safety of the food you eat will be to eliminate precisely those who have nothing to do with the problem.\u00a0 Here’s the link:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2013\/01\/19\/the-fdas-pathetic-food-safety-proposal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

….if it’s worth the fight.\u00a0 The government, which of course is vitally concerned about the food you eat, (sarcasm intended) has come up with still more regulations.\u00a0 What they say, of course, is they’re only thinking of you.\u00a0 But what they’re doing of course, is trying another end run that will favor Big Ag and penalize those small farmers who actually care about the quality of the food we eat. What Uncle Sam plans to do is “inspect” producers and processors in high risk areas.\u00a0 And the cost of us high risk farmers will be $13,000 a year.\u00a0 Big Ag, which makes billions and is the cause of all the unsafe food that is produced every year, will pay about $30,000.\u00a0 So your justifiable concern over the safety of the food you eat will be to eliminate precisely those who have nothing to do with the problem.\u00a0 Here’s the link: http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2013\/01\/19\/the-fdas-pathetic-food-safety-proposal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,27,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-government","category-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1540,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions\/1540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}